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00:43:21

196 | Turning Ultra into a unicorn

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/04/09

Jon Jordan talks to Ultra's new CEO Gus van Rijckevorsel about why the entrepreneur decided to invest in the company. He explains his ambition for Ultra, including competing with Steam and turning the platform into a unicorn that will shake up the entire games industry.[2:38] Gus van Rijckevorsel's previous career as a serial enterpreneur.[4:10] Why he created a French TV show to build his credibility.[9:02] Why Gus "fell in love" with Ultra and wanted to invest. [12:55] Previously

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00:34:58

4 April 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/04/04

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:30] The Sandbox's Alpha 5 Season is now live with Jurassic World being the lead brand.[3:27] Ultra has raised $12 million, with more expected later in 2025.[3:57] Jon's been talking to the new CEO Gus van Rijckevorsel about his vision for the company. [7:05] How this funding will be used to generate momentum for the future funding.[9:38] Three tokens have launched this week. All of them are

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00:41:27

195 | From breeding Axies to Beam

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/04/02

Jon Jordan talks to Marco van den Heuvel, the co-founder and CEO of Beam about the formation of what was originally called Merit Circle as an Axie guild in 2021, then becoming a game investment DAO, and which rebranded as Beam in 2024 as it moved to focus on gaming infrastructure, something it will double down in 2025 with the launch of the Abu Dhabi-based Beam Ventures fund and accelerator. [2:15] Marco's journey in crypto starting with Bitcoin in 2017.[3:30] Started his first company around

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00:46:08

28 March 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/03/28

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:25] Ultra has appointed a new COO, on top of the new CEO added in December 2024. [2:00] Ultra is a Steam-on-blockchain distro platform. It's suffering from the cold start problem.[3:00] Ashes of Mankind is its first party shooter, going into early access in Q2.[4:30] The role of the CEO in modern business and why Ultra's co-CEO structure didn't work.[6:40] But the new CEO and COO

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00:43:47

21 March 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/03/21

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[2:07] GDC 2025 was quiet and not just for web3 gaming.[4:06] Immutable's financials for the period FY22/23 were released. [5:13] It lost $50 million on revenue of $27 million.[6:20] This compared to a loss of $31 million on sales of $19 million in FY21/22.[8:35] It still has around $140 million in cash and liquid crypto in the bank.[15:05] Immutable's revenues are rising but clearly it also

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00:44:06

14 March 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/03/14

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:34] Much anticipated game Wildcard dropped its whitepaper.[1:09] CEO Paul Bettner worked on Age of Empires, created Words With Friends. Very smart.[3:00] This was the first time we got insight about how its blockchain works and it's not the game. [4:08] The blockchain bit is Thousands, an integrated Twitch-like spectator platform.[4:34] Wildcard is a F2P PC/console game with cosmetic IAPs. No

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00:42:17

194 | EVE Frontier's blockchain ethos w/ Hilmar...

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/03/12

Jon Jordan talks to CCP Games’ CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson about why its forthcoming game EVE Frontier is being built open source and fully decentralized. [0:57] How and why Hilmar got interested in blockchain, starting with storing spaceships on Bitcoin.[6:04] Back in 2017, the crypto community was like the early MMOG communities.[7:00] I got more interested after the 2018 crash and I went to my first blockchain game conference.[9:07] Many MMOGs focus on a player's inventory being persistence,

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00:42:19

7 March 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/03/07

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:42] Parallel is the most successful web3 TGC partly through its esport prizes. Just awarded $100,000.[3:22] The second game in the universe is AI experiment Colony, but information is limited.[4:07] Sanctuary is their third game; an extraction shooter. A hard genre to pull-off.[7:20] WorldWide Agents' AI platform went live this week; first time to stake MOJO tokens.[11:03] Wemade's Night

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00:56:30

27 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/28

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [2:54] Yuga Labs has been struggling since 2023 but is now focused on its Otherside metaverse. [4:03] It's testing Project Dragon, a FPS which reach 2,197 concurrent players - a new world record. [5:40] It uses Improbable's MSquared networking tech to handle this in a cost effective manner. [7:05] Improbable has also launched a new blockchain called Somnia. [8:38] It claims to handle 1

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00:36:40

193 | Why Improbable had to build Somnia

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/26

Jon Jordan talks to Improbable CEO Herman Narula about why the UK game tech company decided it had to build its own blockchain. Called Somnia, its testnet is now live. [2:32] The Improbable genesis story: from Cambridge Uni to building games technology. [3:39] Building economies for virtual worlds means you need a blockchain for ownership. [4:54] Improbable's first success was The Multiplayer Guys, who worked on CoD, GTA, Fall Guys etc. [5:27] The biggest thing Improbable has learned is

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00:24:40

20 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/21

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan reflect on the week's news. [1:05] Ronin-based prediction market Forkast has gone live. Jon is very excited. [2:38] It's one of the first non-gaming apps on Ronin as the blockchain has gone permissionless. [5:33] How the prediction market works - users buy and sell percentage bids on events. [7:02] The CGX token has also gone live. It's used for rewards and future governance. [8:30] This isn't gambling. It's skill-based

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00:39:23

193 | How B3 aligns ecosystem incentives

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/19

Jon Jordan talks to NPC Labs' CEO Daryl Xu about its new gaming ecosystem B3, which was spun out of Coinbase's Base blockchain. [5:16] The original story for B3 as a founding team out of the Coinbase Base team. [6:15] Games wanted to launch on Base but it wasn't built for gaming. [7:03] There's a big lack in the game sector in terms of publishing services. [11:21] How does B3 help grow the blockchain gaming audience? Better games and infrastructure. [12:44] Everything will

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00:48:25

7 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/14

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan reflect on the week's news. [1:15] The RON token has flipped the marketcap of the AXS token. [2:48] The Ronin blockchain has gone permissionless in terms of its zkEVM chain. [6:57] Sky Mavis has announced a $100,000 RON prize pool for NFT trading this month. [9:10] Sky Mavis is pushing all the growth levers forward for Ronin. [10:12] Overall, daily activity on the Ronin is down to around 500,000 DAUWs from 2 million. [11:33] Blocklords

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00:37:06

191 | TreasureDAO's vision for 2025

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/12

Jon Jordan talks to TreasureDAO co-founder Karel Vuong about the "decentralized game console's" vision for 2025.[1:46] Karel's backstory in tech and VC investing, prior to Treasure.[4:37] Treasure was originally an offshoot of the Loot NFT ecosystem in September 2021.[6:25] Treasure's fair launch for the MAGIC token. No VCs, just community.[10:04] What's with the concept of being a "decentralized game console"?[14:05] Why Treasure's branding is focused around

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00:56:12

7 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/07

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news. [1:05] Planet Mojo has announced WWA Season 1, in which humans and agents play, stake and win.[4:13] Humans play using $MOJO and earn World Points and AgentXP, which is staked on the AIs.[7:43] A key question is will it be fun to watch AI agents playing poker?[9:30] Mighty Bear Games is minting its AlphaGOAT AI agents, which can earn tokens.[13:44] Faraway has announced more about RIFT, including its RIFT Arena

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00:37:28

190 | How Mythical Games hits 100 million wallets

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/02/05

Jon Jordan talks to Mythical Games' CEO John Linden about the success of NFL Rivals, the forthcoming launch of FIFA Rivals and Pudgy Party, and how he expects to hit 100 million wallets in the next 18 months. [4:26] 65% of Mythical's revenue is now generated from NFT trading in NFL Rivals, up from 20%. [5:12] We have an enormous plan for NFL Rivals in 2025 with PVP mode, more social interaction. [7:20] The game design challenge of not being able to reset NFT players at the start of

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00:45:28

31 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/01/31

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news. [0:37] Faraway Games reveals its AI agent platform Rift, and airdrops the RIFT token. [3:14] This follows on from the launch of the J3FF AI agent and token in late 2024. [7:34] The Rift platform is interesting as a way of adding functionality to AI chat agents. [10:21] There's also the potential for these agents to earn crypto i.e. acting as validators. [12:32] Youmio has revealed more details of its

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00:41:16

189 | Yat Siu on memes, AI agents and TON

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/01/29

Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu about the rise of memecoins, the value of Telegram and TON as a distribution platform, and how AI agents could shake everything up. [3:56] What's the state of memecoins in 2025? [6:28] "We are narrative, story-telling people - money, democracy, politics are all stories." [8:32] "The part that makes me a bit negative about memes is they are being abused by snipers." [11:02] Is PENGU a pure memecoin? Can a

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00:54:57

24 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/01/24

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news. [0:52] How Jon came up with the Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies of 2025 list. [8:28] Proof of Play was #1 - Jon explains why. [18:04] Soccerverse now has over 1,000 managers and is about to hit Game Day 3. [21:56] TON is now the only blockchain that can connect to Telegram mini-games. [26:08] LINE NEXT has launched its first mini games using the Kaia blockchain. [27:16] Jon found it complex to find the

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00:53:27

17 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/01/17

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan chew through the week's news. [0:23] Sky Mavis has announced a new $10 million grants program for developers on Ronin. [3:22] Is the ease of onboarding users to web3 games still a big issue? [7:08] Mobile basketball game Rumble Kong League is migrating to Ronin. [9:50] What will be most interesting about Ronin going permissionless is new non-gaming apps. [11:55] Axie Infinity added $4 million to its treasury in 2024. [15:31]

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